In Russia, the newest type of capitalist imperialism has fully revealed itself in the policy of tsarism toward Persia, Manchuria, Mongolia, but on the whole in Russia military and feudal imperialism predominates. Nowhere in the world is there such oppression of the majority of the country's population as in Russia: the Great Russians constitute only 43% of the population, i.e., less than half, while all the rest are disenfranchised as aliens. Out of 170 million of Russia's population, approximately 100 million are oppressed and disenfranchised. Tsarism wages war for the seizure of Galicia and the final strangulation of Ukrainian freedom, for the seizure of Armenia, Constantinople, and so forth. Tsarism sees in war a means to divert attention from the growth of discontent within the country and to suppress the growing revolutionary movement. Now for every two Great Russians in Russia there are from two to three disenfranchised "aliens": by means of war tsarism strives to increase the number of nations oppressed by Russia, to consolidate their oppression, and thereby to undermine the struggle for freedom of the Great Russians themselves. The possibility of oppressing and plundering foreign peoples strengthens economic stagnation, since instead of the development of productive forces, the source of income is often the semi-feudal exploitation of "aliens." Thus on the part of Russia the war is distinguished by utter reactionism and an anti-emancipatory character.